Gender Designation

Height/Weight

Use foot and inch marks found on the key to the right of the semicolon/colon (not curly quotes and apostrophe) when referring to the height of an athlete.

Alma’s best guard was 6’2”, 210 lbs.
If space is a consideration, 6-2, 210 may be used.

Honors

Use italics for summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude in publications or on the website but not when including these terms in release copy.

Money

Use only the numbers that are necessary in references to dollar amounts. Drop unnecessary zeros.

Please submit the $25 course fee by Sept. 16.

The college had an $18.3 million operation budget in 1989-90.

Two million dollars has been donated to the Annual Fund.

Exceptions to this guideline occur when constructing lists of dollar amounts in which some items need the cents numbers. Use your own judgment when space is a concern. Consistency within a publication is always a goal.

Musical Compositions

Do not italicize or use quotation marks for titles of musical compositions that contain only the name of a musical form and a key or number. Use quotes or italics with an attributed title and place it in parentheses after the designation of form and key.

Beethoven’s Sonata in D major. op. 128

Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E-flat (St. Anne)

The words opus and number are lowercase and abbreviated op. and no. in Heritage Center copy. If number follows opus it is lowercased; if it is part of a composition’s title, capitalize the n.

In a composition title, Major is uppercase, minor is lowercase. The key is always in uppercase.

RIGHT: Beethoven’s Sonata in D Major

Grieg’s Concerto in A minor

WRONG: Beethoven’s Sonata in d Major

Grieg’s Concerto in a minor

RIGHT: Prelude in E-flat minor

Use cello without the apostrophe for Heritage Center copy.

Plurals

woman/women

man/men

freshman/freshmen

Possessives

Form the possessive of a noun ending in s by adding only an apostrophe whether singular or plural.